Software Engineering Daily Podcast: SimpleWebAuthn with Matthew Miller
A reflection of my work on SimpleWebAuthn with Gregor Vand.
I recently appeared on the Software Engineering Daily podcast to talk about my work on SimpleWebAuthn! Here’s the summary of everything we talked about:
SimpleWebAuthn is an open source TypeScript-centric pair of libraries – frontend and backend – that make it easier for devs to implement WebAuthn on the web.
Matthew Miller started the project in 2019 and it has grown in tandem with the popularization of WebAuthn. He joins the podcast today to talk about the history of the project starting from the first commit, the problems it solves, its design, and more.
Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.
It was great to be asked to guest appear about my work on SimpleWebAuthn - it’s always been hard to gauge how aware people outside of GitHub are of my work. If anything sounds out of date I apologize, we recorded things back in November!
Their site includes a transcript and a web player to listen to the episode. It’s also available in your preferred podcast app - I listened to it in Pocket Casts no problem 👍